SF News Photo: Oakland Cop Parks In Disabled Parking Spot While Getting Peet's Coffee An SFist tipster, who wishes to remain anonymous, sent us this photo of an Oakland police officer parking in a disabled parking space in Temescal on Monday while sipping some brew inside a
SF News Two Men Rape Woman Near Oakland City Hall A 25-year-old woman survived a kidnapping and rape by two men in Oakland on Sunday morning. The victim says she was "grabbed from behind about 1 a.m. near 14th Street and Broadway"
SF News Falling Tree Causes Wrecks, Man's Death On Highway 13 A multi-car crash on Highway 13 Thursday morning resulted in several car wrecks and the death of an 18-year-old Washington man. The tree crashed down onto southbound traffic near Park Boulevard in Oakland
SF News Oakland Shelter Swimming In Rabbits You know the old chestnut about "[copulating] like bunnies"? Yeah, well, an Oakland family whose developmentally disabled son was given two rabbits, believing both were female, was surprised by a litter of rabbits,
SF News Gunman (?) Locked Inside Oakland/Rockridge CVS [Updated] A man with a gun is trapped inside a CVS drugstore at 51st & Broadway as cops wait outside. The suspect was discovered inside the store before it opened, meaning that no employees
SF News Oakland Already Sees 24th Murder Of 2012 Only three months in and Oakland has played host to an astounding 24 homicides in 2012. A unidentified man was shot and killed inside his apartment over on the 2100 block of 10th
SF News Man Killed While Driving Bentley In East Oakland [Updated] A man was shot and killed last night while driving a Bentley in East Oakland, and his car proceeded to roll half a block and collide with at least two other cars head-on,
Arts & Entertainment GrafRank Ranks Global Graffiti Statistics In SF And Oakland... And Beyond! Created by Gothamist cofounder and noted street art aficionado Jake Dobkin, GrafRank shows which graffiti artists are going up in San Francisco and Oakland, and which areas are popular for their work. The
SF News Oakland School On Lockdown After Gunman Opens Fire Roosevelt Middle School (1926 East 19th Street) is on lockdown after somebody nearby carrying several guns fired shots at around 10:30 today. "The incident began about 10:30 a.m. in the
SF News Yet Again, More Oakland Shootings The crime-ridden state of Oakland continues unabated after two more shootings rocked the East Bay town overnight. First, a man walking on the 1300 block of Campbell Street in West Oakland "heard a
SF News Oakland Elementary School On Lockdown [Updated] Maxwell Park Elementary (4730 Fleming) in Oakland is on lockdown, with students being evacuated, after a neighbor reported seeing a man with a shotgun roaming around the area. No reports of any injuries
SF News Oakland Once Again Contemplating Broadway Streetcar Line For the second time in the last ten years, the City of Oakland is initiating a study to look into the feasibility and potential economic-development opportunities that would come from a streetcar line
SF News Anonymous Releases Personal Data On Jean Quan, Oakland Officials In response to what they view as an unnecessarily violent response by the City of Oakland to Occupy protesters, the internet collective known as Anonymous struck out against Oakland officials today by posting
SF News Bricks Fall Off Liquor Store In Oakland; Every Journalist In Town Covers It So, a piece of antique brick wall adorning the cornice of an East Oakland liquor store crumbled and fell to the sidewalk early this morning, and for lack of any new Occupy shenanigans
SF News Three Overnight Shootings In Oakland, One Fatal In addition to the shootings on this side of the Bay last night, three separate shootings in Oakland left one 48-year-old man dead and two others wounded. The fatal incident occurred around 8:
SF News Fruitvale Taco Truck Stickup Ends In Shootout A couple of attempted robbers and the owner of the taco truck they tried to stickup got in to a gun battle in a heavily-armed corner of Oakland late last night. According to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: The Gentleman Chefs Club SFist is beginning a new series in which Bay Area natives and long-time residents can share their stories from bygone eras. Our inaugural story comes from Bev DeBeaumont Warnecke, who worked at Baruh
SF News Oakland Occupier Renounces Occupy, Blames Melee On Outsiders We just came across an interesting editorial regarding last weekend's Occupy Oakland kerfuffle in which a stalwart member of the bandwagon expresses distaste for the lack of strategy and general stupidity of what
SF News Meanwhile, At Frank Ogawa Plaza... Graffiti gets the message out at the entrance to Frank Ogawa Plaza this morning following Saturday's day of action in Oakland and OPD's brutal response. After a confrontation with police, demonstrators entered City
SF News Woman Attacked On BART Coliseum Platform A woman reported being attacked by 3 to 4 men on the Oakland BART Coliseum/Oakland Airport station platform this morning during the morning commute, reports KRON 4 Morning News. She received medical
SF News Mark Davis' Hair Emergency Trumps Possible Raiders Return To LA We came to write a piece on the Oakland Raiders possibly moving back to Los Angeles. We stayed to gaze in shock and awe at Mark Davis' hair. Because that there is a.
Arts & Entertainment Real Housewife Of Atlanta Coming to Oakland To Sell Sex Toys R&B Singer/Songwriter and Real Housewife of Atlanta Kandi Burruss will be on hand to help local sex toy purveyor Good Vibrations celebrate the opening of their new Oakland location [link
SF News Raiders Fire Head Coach Hue Jackson Oh dear. The Oakland Raiders fired head coach Hue Jackson on Tuesday. Jackson, if you recall, coached for one season after the firing of brutish coach Tom Cable. "Jackson let the Raiders to
SF News Berkeley City Clerk Found Dead Inside Her Home [Updated] Deanna Despain, Berkeley's city clerk, was found dead inside her Oakland home (at on the 4100 block of Lyman Road) on Saturday morning. According to Berkeleyside, who broke the story, "The coroner’s
